Module 2 Flashcards
True/False:
General Sherman worked for peace after the Warren Wagon Train Raid.
False
True/False:
No Native American leaders agreed with the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek.
False
True/False:
Native Americans were required to register on reservations after President Grant put the army in charge of Native American affairs in West Texas.
True
True/False:
President Grant tried to improve the reservation system for Native Americans.
True
True/False:
General Philip Sheridan opposed the slaughter of the buffalo.
False
True/False:
In 1867 five Native American groups met with the U.S. government to discuss a treaty.
True
True/False:
The Native Americans who attacked the Warren Wagon Train had left their reservation in Indian Territory.
True
True/False:
The Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek was signed by the U.S. government and all of the leaders of the Native American groups that attended.
False
True/False:
Quanah Parker won a major victory in the attack on buffalo hunters.
False
True/False:
After the Civil War, the U.S. Army stopped Native American raids in West Texas.
False
Which Comanche leader ignored the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek and continued to lead raids against white settlers?
a) Kicking Bird
b) Lone Wolf
c) Santana
d) Quanah Parker
d) Quanah Parker
What actions did Ulysses S. Grant take to change the reservation system?
a) He appointed church groups and missionaries to run the reservations.
b) He put the Native American leaders in charge of running the reservations.
c) He appointed agents who stole supplies from the Native Americans.
d) He put the reservations under the control of the U.S. Army.
a)He appointed church groups and missionaries to run the reservations.
Where did most Native Americans from Texas live by the late 1800s?
a) On their original hunting grounds throughout the state.
b) In Mexican settlements in the south.
c) On the Alabama-Coushatta Reservation.
d) On reservations outside of Texas.
d) On reservations outside of Texas.
What actions did Sherman order following the Warren Wagon Train Raid?
a) To find all of the Native American leaders and put them on trial.
b) To destroy the camps of Native Americans not living on reservations.
c) To build forts throughout the Panhandle and West Texas.
d) To slow settlement by Anglo Americans in West Texas.
b) To destroy the camps of Native Americans not living on reservations.
How did Native Americans break the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek?
a) They left West Texas.
b) They raided white settlements.
c) They gave up hunting for farming.
d) They stole from reservations.
b) They raided white settlements.
Which of the following events occurred last during the West Texas Wars?
a) Warren Wagon Train Raid
b) Palo Duro Canyon
c) Adobe Walls
d) Buffalo Wallow Fight
b) Palo Duro Canyon
Who named the African American soldiers in the West “buffalo soldiers”?
a) Former Civil War leaders.
b) Native Americans
c) William Tecumseh Sherman
d) Congress
b) Native Americans
What was Colonel Ranald S. Mackenzie’s role in the Red River Campaign?
a) Defeat renegades along the Rio Grande.
b) Led the attack in Palo Duro Canyon.
c) Attacked at Adobe Walls.
d) Escorted settlers on the Plains.
b) Led the attack in Palo Duro Canyon.
How did the U.S. government break the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek?
a) By building railroads across the Great Plains.
b) By punishing those who sold liquor on reservations.
c) By failing to provide supplies and allowing soldiers to enter reservations.
d) By allowing white settlers to occupy land in West Texas.
c) By failing to provide supplies and allowing soldiers to enter reservations.
What made it easier for settlers to reach West Texas by the 1890s?
a) A new peace agreement with Mexico.
b) The expansion of railroad lines.
c) The increased number of Native American reservations in Texas.
d) The defeat of the outlaws in the Rio Grande Valley.
b) The expansion of railroad lines.
What was the purpose of the Red River Campaign?
a) To trap the Native Americans that refused to register on the reservations.
b) To provide a new home for the Native Americans in the Texas Panhandle.
c) For the Kiowa, Comanche, and Cheyenne to move to West Texas for winter.
d) For the Kiowa and Comanche to set up winter camps in canyons and valleys.
a) To trap the Native Americans that refused to register on the reservations.
Why did settlements in West Texas often come under attack by Native Americans during the Civil War?
a) The Native Americans fought for the Union against the Confederate settlers.
b) The federal troops had been pulled out of Texas to fight in the East.
c) The U.S. Army had broken the Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek.
d) The Native Americans hoped to move to a reservation in West Texas.
b) The federal troops had been pulled out of Texas to fight in the East.
